We are sad to report that Professor Dorota Filipczak, Head of the Department of Intermedial, Canadian and Postcolonial Studies at the University of Lodz, Poland, has died. From almost the beginning, since she came as a visiting scholar to the University of Durham in the late 1980s, Dorota has been a supporter of the biennial …
Dear ISRLC community, Like everyone right now, we as a Society find ourselves in uncharted territory. We are unable to absorb fully the immediate effects of the global pandemic, and even less can we ascertain the extent of its fallout. Like many institutions, organisations, groups, and indeed businesses, we have been forced to speculate on …
A review of the 2018 conference, ‘The Place of Truth‘, by ISRLC member Dr Deborah Lewer.
Members, Those who had the privilege of being at the 19thbiennial ISRLC conference in Uppsala, Sweden (28-30 September, 2018) experienced yet another full programme of engaging discussion and debate in a richly interdisciplinary environment, this time on the theme of “The Place of Truth”. We are grateful to our hosts, Mattias Martinson of Uppsala University …
Lines in Sand Borders, Conflicts and Transitions in Religion, Literature and Culture The 18th Biennial Conference of the International Society for Religion, Literature and Culture University of Glasgow, 9-11th September 2016. Keynote Speakers: Catherine Keller, Drew University. Author of: On The Mystery – Discerning God in Process, Cloud of the Impossible and Face of the …
Theology, Religion and Popular Culture – A Major Conference for Faith Community Practitioners and Academics You are warmly invited to ‘Fandom and Religion’, a conference organised by the international, UK-based Theology, Religion and Popular Culture Network. 28th-30th July 2015, University of Leicester Main speakers: Matt Hills (Aberystwyth) John Maltby (Leicester) Chris Partridge …
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The Conference on Christianity and Literature has a new, vastly improved website.
Papers from the 2012 ISRLC conference in Copenhagen, “Cultures Of Transition: Presence, Absence, Memory”, are now available in a special issue of Literature and Theology. Read the guest introduction for FREE now online: http://www.oxfordjournals.org/page/5681/2
Greetings, all. I write in the afterglow of the 16th biennial ISRCL conference in Copenhagen (19-21 October). Those who had the fortune of attending – 120 of you in total, representing an impressively global spectrum – will know what a splendid event it was, from the opening plenary to final panel sessions on the Sunday. …
The Power of the Word Poetry and Prayer: Continuities and Discontinuities 29-30 June 2012 Prayer is the little implement Through which Men reach Where Presence—is denied them – Emily Dickinson An international conference organized jointly by the Institute of English Studies and Heythrop College, University of London. Venue: Senate House, University of London The second …
